argyllflyer wrote:UK viewers were facing a blackout but Freesports (recently added FTA channel on all digital platforms) have picked the whole thing up with live coverage on Sun/Tues/Thurs/Sat/Sun and delayed on Wed/Fri.

Koronin wrote:Now if only we could get coverage in the US. It appears we have 0 coverage on TV this year. NBC appears to have taken all races off TV and put them on their subscription streaming service.

Thankfully Australia hasn't gone that way for the majority of the high profile races. Giro fans like me have to pay as from last year when the rights expired.

I've said this before, and I'll say it again: argyllflyer has a calming effect on my fragile psyche. You always know what you're going to get from argyllflyer. S/he is awesome.That said, I have to say I'm starting to become a big fan of the Hatch/Stephens combo. They seem to have a comfortable balance and the banter is almost seamless. No talking over one another. Good rapport and good race analysis.Those two are a top notch pair.

Great to see my man Carlton Kirby in mid-season form at the Dubai tour.He lost his mind when the host broadcaster kept going back to a shot of a turtle 6 km's from the finish of stage 2.As the kids say nowadays, I lol'd.

the delgados wrote:Great to see my man Carlton Kirby in mid-season form at the Dubai tour.He lost his mind when the host broadcaster kept going back to a shot of a turtle 6 km's from the finish of stage 2.As the kids say nowadays, I lol'd.

The director has a habit of breaking off from the action to show a fountain or flowerbed etc - fine with 80km to go, less so with 6...

Nirvana wrote:Usual RCS style camera work, they use one helicopter only to film these things.We are lucky that in Dubai there aren't young girls, old men and baby childs near the finish line.

There's no one at the finish line. There's no one who lines the route.I exaggerate to a certain extent, but I don't understand the initiative to race in Dubai. It's kinda funny when a camera focuses on a group of three or four people along the route. It's like, "Hey, someone is watching!" Yesterday we saw some guy on the road waving a red flag for no reason other than to tell the riders to get out of his way. Then we saw a few guys going crazy and getting as close to the peloton as possible without getting run over, but that was pretty much it. Whenever I tune in to the Dubai tour, I ask myself why the race exists.Thank god we have my man Carlton Kirby to spice things up a bit and bring us out of our collective doldrums.